21.   But the opposition cried foul, noting that the house speaker had disqualified from voting seven rebel members of the ruling coalition.

22.   Chaowalit can only be appointed premier by King Bhumibol after he is nominated by the house speaker.

23.   Deputy house speaker Tosari Wijaya told the Post that legislators were too preoccupied with deliberating bills to vote on the requested inquiry any earlier than March.

24.   The party earlier Monday also submitted a separate no-confidence motion against lower house speaker Takako Doi.

25.   Lower house speaker Shivraj Patil repeatedly called for order but his appeals were drowned out in the uproar.

26.   Lower house speaker Shivraj Patil repeatedly called for calm and threatened slogan-chanting MPs with expulsion but the warning failed to restore order.

27.   Lower house speaker Shivraj Patil, however, cautioned MPs not to force a confrontation between the judiciary and the executive.

28.   Lower house speaker Shivraj Patil, however, cautioned MPs not to force a confrontation.

29.   Meanwhile in Moscow, lower house Duma deputy speaker Valentin Kovaliyev, reinforced the soft approach of the Grozny delegation.

30.   Nabih Berri, the Lebanese house speaker and leader of the pro-Syrian Shiite Amal movement, said the rockets were the work of a non-Lebanese organisation.